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Born
July 7, 1977 (age 43)
Buffalo, New York, United States
OccupationPresenter, host, writer
Years active2005–present
Spouse(s)Mr. Chobot[1]
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(m. after 2012)​
Children1

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Jessica Chobot (born Jessica Lynn Horn; July 7, 1977) is an American on-camera host and writer.[2] She has hosted the IGN shows IGN Strategize and Weekly Wood, which also runs on Xbox Live; she previously worked as presenter of the IGN Daily Fix. Since 2013, she was the primary host of Nerdist News and Nerdist News Talks Back for Nerdist Industries. In 2014, she launched her own podcast titled Bizarre States. She left Nerdist on August 5, 2019. She currently stars in a show called Expedition X.

Early life[edit]

Jessica Lynn Horn was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Novi, Michigan.[1] Her family moved from town to town frequently during her youth. Before entering high school, she lived in several places on the East Coast and the Midwest.[3]

Career[edit]

Chobot gained exposure when Kotaku published a photo of her licking a Sony PSP online in 2005.[1] The photo has been widely parodied since,[4] even appearing on Sony-branded advertising.[5] Supplementing her love of video games is an obsession with Japanese culture, especially anime and manga.

In 2006, Chobot was hired full-time by IGN.com to take over hosting responsibilities for the network's IGN Weekly show which is still running. Her segments included stand-up introductions as well as 'woman-on-the-street' pieces. Starting in 2009 and ending in 2011, Chobot hosted a daily show titled IGN Daily Fix; the first episode aired March 23, 2009. In addition, she contributes columns, features and reviews and runs a blog on IGN. Chobot is also a former contributor to FHM UK, Mania.com, and has made multiple appearances on G4's Filter and Attack of the Show!. She has also hosted a videogame preview segment for Fuel TV's, The Daily Habit, and co-hosts on Lifeskool TV's, Gamer's Dojo. She also contributes as a weekly guest on Maxim Radio, where she answers caller questions for an hour each Monday.[citation needed] Chobot and Ryan Dunn starred in Proving Ground, a program whose airing cycle was disrupted by Dunn's death in an automotive crash on June 20, 2011, after the end of production; the program was pulled from airing for a month before returning to finish its run beginning on July 19, 2011.

Chobot has appeared on commercials for ADV's Anime Network On Demand cable station, and lent her likeness to Symbiote Studios Toy Company for two limited-edition anime-style sculptures. In addition, she has modeled for the J!NX female gamers clothing line. In 2006-2007, she co-wrote a sci-fi script with writer/director/creator of Tron, Steven Lisberger, for Soul Code.[6] Current collaborations include an anime-style collectible figurine in development with Symbiote Studios, a representative of JiNX.com women's apparel line.Chobot is also writing the 'Ask Jess, Dammit!' blog for Maxim.[7] She was named the 88th most desirable woman of 2008 by AskMen magazine[8] and 14th hottest woman of business 2009 by Business Pundit.[9] Chobot also hosts a weekly show featured on Inside Xbox called IGN Strategize. In 2011, Chobot placed at #57 in the 2011 Askmen's Top 99 Women poll.[10] She voiced news reporter Diana Allers in Mass Effect 3, a character modelled in her likeness; Forbes contributor Erik Kain described this as a 'grotesque instance' of journalists being too close to publishers, pointing out that 'Chobot had previewed the game on G4TV and written that she was a huge fan of BioWare', though both Chobot and IGN made it known that she would not review the game in any official capacity.[11]

On November 4, 2013, Chobot began work as the main host of Nerdist News,[12] a news show focusing on nerdy pop culture updates airing 5 days a week on Nerdist.com.[13]Chobot is the writer for Daylight, a survival horror video game by Zombie Studios.[1] The game launched on April 29, 2014.On June 26, 2014, Chobot launched her own podcast dedicated to the weird and supernatural titled Bizarre States. The show is co-hosted by fellow Nerdist Industries's employee Andrew Bowser and features occasional guests.[14]

In 2015, Chobot was the contestant interviewer on the revived sixth series of robotic combat game show Battlebots, and she acted as Samus Aran for the movie Metroid: The Sky Calls, which was produced by a studio named Rainfall. She played the role along with another actress named America Young.[15]On August 5, 2019, Chobot announced on Twitter that she was leaving Nerdist after six years.[16]Chobot now stars in Expedition X which premiered on February 12, 2020 on the Discovery Channel.

Personal life[edit]

She was divorced from a previous marriage in 2006 but kept the surname Chobot.[1]

On August 21, 2011, Chobot became engaged to G4tv's Blair Herter and they married on February 18, 2012. They had their first child on March 6, 2013.[17][18]

References[edit]

  1. ^ abcdeHall, Charlie (September 13, 2013). 'Jessica Chobot: Stepping Into Daylight'. Polygon.
  2. ^Chobot, Jessica [@JessicaChobot] (October 26, 2012). 'Not a writer for IGN or reviewer for G4. I'm a host/entertainer' (Tweet). Retrieved October 27, 2012 – via Twitter.
  3. ^'Jessica Chobot'. Askmen.com. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
  4. ^Amini, Tina. 'Step Aside, Jessica Chobot Licking A PSP. There's A New Scandalous Picture, And It Involves The Wii U.'Kotaku. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  5. ^Chobot, Jessica. 'Biography'. Symbioteststudios.com. Archived from the original on July 25, 2009. Retrieved May 15, 2009.
  6. ^Garrett, Diane (September 4, 2007). 'Steven Lisberger to direct 'Code''. Variety. Retrieved May 15, 2009.
  7. ^Chobot, Jessica. 'Ask Jess, Dammit!'. Maxim.com. Archived from the original on January 10, 2010. Retrieved May 15, 2009.
  8. ^'Top 99 women, 2008 Edition'. AskMen. Archived from the original on March 13, 2010. Retrieved May 15, 2009.
  9. ^'25 Hottest Women of Business'. Business Pundit. January 1, 2009. Retrieved May 15, 2009.
  10. ^'Jessica Chobot - Top 99 Women'. AskMen. Archived from the original on January 22, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
  11. ^Kain, Eric (October 26, 2012). 'All The Pretty Doritos: How Video Game Journalism Went Off The Rails'. Forbes. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
  12. ^Walton, Brian (November 5, 2013). 'Watch the Premiere of Nerdist News with Jessica Chobot!'. Nerdist.
  13. ^'Nerdist News'. Nerdist.com.
  14. ^'Bizarre States Podcast'. Nerdist.
  15. ^RainfallFilms (November 2, 2015). 'Metroid: The Sky Calls // a Rainfall Films Intergalactic Odyssey'. YouTube.
  16. ^'Jessica Chobot Leaves Nerdist'. Twitter. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
  17. ^Johnson, Ed (August 23, 2011). 'G4/IGN's Herter and Chobot get engaged with geek style'. Zimbio.com. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2011.
  18. ^Prat, Vanessa (August 26, 2011). 'Gaming Host Proposes With Wonder Woman Inspired Ring'. Since1910.com. Retrieved September 8, 2011.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jessica Chobot.
  • Jessica Chobot's Nerdist Blog at the Wayback Machine (archived June 18, 2018)
  • Jessica Chobot at IMDb
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Blasto
Developer(s)Sony Interactive Studios America
Publisher(s)Sony Computer Entertainment
Producer(s)Jonathan Beard
David Poe
Designer(s)Jonathan Beard
Programmer(s)Dylan Cuthbert
Writer(s)Jonathan Beard
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Tobey
Matt Wickline
Composer(s)Chuck Doud
Platform(s)PlayStation
Release
Genre(s)Third-person shooter, Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Blasto is a platformingthird-person shooter game developed by Sony Interactive Studios America[2] and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the Sony PlayStation in 1998. Although heavily marketed, the game proved too difficult for many players. Phil Hartman voiced Captain Blasto, an extremely muscular, alien-fighting, dimwitted captain.

Gameplay[edit]

The game is a third-person action/platformer/shooter. The enemies are aliens that teleport in around the player based on events that are triggered as the player explores the environment. The game has a strong platforming factor, with elements such as rotating 3D sections which have to be navigated while shooting at aliens. Puzzle elements tend to be limited to simple 'find the switch to proceed' scenarios. However, some of the elements within the game require the player to utilize different weaponry in certain situations in order to advance to the next area. Blasto is one of the few PlayStation games to use both control sticks. The left stick offers better movement control than the D-Pad and the right stick can be used to adjust the player's aim.

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Plot[edit]

After returning from the 5th dimension, the diabolical alien tyrant named Bosc is bent on conquering the Planet Uranus with his own army and attempts to invade and destroy Earth as well. He is seeking to reign supreme for his power of the solar system that includes his alien army capturing and enslaving the Space Babes throughout the galaxy. Thus, Captain Blasto is the only hero who can foil him and his evil ambitions and set out to rescue the stranded Space Babes along the way. Blasto is also the only type of hero who doesn't mind catching Space Babes in distress every now and then, especially when it comes to exploring and venturing across through the Planet Uranus.

Development[edit]

Though it was not announced until the June 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Blasto had been secretly in development since 1995.[3]

Wanting the game to be free of load times, the development team made the game stream constantly off the CD.[4] This made it impossible to use Redbook audio, so the music had to be done in MIDI format.[4]

None of the PlayStation's graphics libraries were used for the game, with the developers instead using custom tools and low-level programming to bring models built in Alias directly into the game.[4] Another custom tool enabled the designers to track which parts of the game world were most heavily trafficked by playtesters, so that they could tweak level design to either redirect players towards specific areas or move important elements from widely ignored areas to more heavily trafficked ones.[4]

Instead of texture mapping, vertex lighting was used to give color and definition to the floors. Because vertex lighting is a time-consuming process for artists, Sony gave the Blasto team carte blanche in taking artists from other teams to get the project completed on time.[4]

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Initially announced for a late 1997 release, Blasto was later pushed back to April 16, 1998. Sony did not provide a specific reason for the delay.[5]

The game also had a Japanese release planned as advertised via a promo video included on Dengeki PlayStation D14 under the name Captain Blasto (キャプテンブラスト, Kyaputen Burasuto), but was cancelled for unknown reasons.

In the version of the title released in PAL regions, the original episode (level) 3 was removed due to space limitations, since the PAL version included a number of languages.

Reception[edit]

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Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
GameRankings65%[6]
Review scores
PublicationScore
AllGame[7]
Edge5/10[8]
EGM6.375/10[9]
Game Informer8.25/10[10]
GamePro[11]
GameRevolutionB+[12]
GameSpot4.2/10[13]
IGN5/10[14]
Next Generation[15]
OPM (US)[16]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[17]

The game received 'mixed' reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[6]Next Generation said of the game, 'In the end, despite all the problems, this isn't the worst game ever released for PlayStation, but it doesn't hold a candle to the best, or even the mediocre.'[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^GameSpot staff (April 16, 1998). 'New Release Update [date mislabeled as 'April 28, 2000']'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on February 21, 1999. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  2. ^'News Bits'. GamePro. No. 106. IDG. July 1997. p. 21.
  3. ^EGM staff (June 1997). 'Gaming Gossip'. Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 95. Ziff Davis. p. 26.
  4. ^ abcde'NG Alphas: Blasto'. Next Generation. No. 31. Imagine Media. July 1997. pp. 56–60.
  5. ^'Blasto Pushed to Early '98'. GamePro. No. 111. IDG. December 1997. p. 28.
  6. ^ ab'Blasto for PlayStation'. GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on May 21, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  7. ^Romero, Joshua. 'Blasto - Review'. AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 14, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  8. ^Edge staff (June 1998). 'Blasto'. Edge. No. 59. Future Publishing. p. 96. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  9. ^EGM staff (June 1998). 'Blasto'. Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 107. Ziff Davis.
  10. ^McNamara, Andy; Storm, Jon; Reiner, Andrew (May 1998). 'Blasto'. Game Informer. No. 59. FuncoLand. Archived from the original on September 21, 1999. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  11. ^Air Hendrix (June 1998). 'Blasto Review for PlayStation on GamePro.com'. GamePro. No. 117. IDG. Archived from the original on February 9, 2005. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  12. ^Clint (April 1998). 'Blasto Review'. GameRevolution. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on June 13, 1998. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  13. ^Fielder, Joe (April 14, 1998). 'Blasto Review'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  14. ^IGN staff (April 14, 1998). 'Blasto'. IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  15. ^ ab'Blasto'. Next Generation. No. 42. Imagine Media. June 1998. p. 135. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  16. ^'Blasto'. Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. Vol. 1 no. 9. Ziff Davis. June 1998.
  17. ^Walk, Gary Eng (May 22, 1998). 'Blasto'. Entertainment Weekly. No. 433. Time Inc. Retrieved June 12, 2018.

External links[edit]

  • Blasto at MobyGames

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